Finally! A #ConspiracyTheory we can all agree on: "Conspiracy theorists claim the attempt on the US president’s life was a ploy to secure his $400m White House ballroom"
A ‘staged’ shooting? Even Trump’s supporters are questioning his assassination attempt
https://archive.ph/9ROIX#selection-2147.4-2147.121
The Grand Conspiracy's New Prosecutor May Be the Case's Biggest Liability (Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-grand-conspiracy's-new-prosecutor-may-be-the-case's-biggest-liability
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p91#a260427p91
First came the shooting. Then, the conspiracy theories. (Liam Scott/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/27/whcd-shooting-conspiracy-theories-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260427/p98#a260427p98
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https://open.spotify.com/track/2C3YnXbRvaqiBx5s2fcyit
Why go looking for some false flag conspiracy or whatever when we have this in plain sight:
- Tight, rapid comms coordination between a would-be authoritarian government and supposedly independent public figures
- That messaging control extending across supposedly independent branches of government; total collapse of checks and balances, replaced with government by PR strategy
- Mass consolidation of both news media and social media under the control of the billionaire backers of said authoritarians
With Spencer Fano and KC Concepcion picks, Browns GM Andrew Berry swings at past struggles https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7224876/2026/04/24/browns-spencer-fano-kc-concepcion-nfl-draft/
I truly love my job (seriously!) and love all the work I'm doing, but I have to admit that the 16yo boy buried decades deep inside me looks at this with a bit of envy:
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The concept is simple. “We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is,” said Jason Hopper, deputy manager for the methalox assessment project at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
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To be clear: with these people I always look to opportunism before conspiracy to explain their actions — but when you have this kind of rapidly convergent manufactured consensus within a political group, the distinction between those two becomes blurry.
Looking for malicious premeditation is probably just pursuing a red herring. I’m more interested in how they form their response, what they’re doing to try to shape public conversation, social media, the press.
Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged with Conspiring to Smuggle Artificial Intelligence Technology to China (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-and-two-us-citizens-charged-conspiring-smuggle-artificial-intelligence
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p109#a260325p109